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En canot sur les chemins d'eau du roi: une aventure en Amérique
Par Jean Raspail. 2005
1949. Jean Raspail a vingt-trois ans et un rêve : descendre en canot du Saint-Laurent à La Nouvelle-Orléans sur les…
traces des premiers explorateurs français. Sept mois durant, avec trois compagnons, il va affronter intempéries, accidents et naufrages, tenant chaque soir son journal de bord. Miraculeusement retrouvées, ces notes nous permettent de croiser Champlain, Le Moyne d'Iberville, le père Marquette, Cavelier de la Salle, mais aussi les officiers du roi, les garnisons des forts. Hymne à la France américaine, ce " voyage d'apprentissage " est aussi une fabuleuse aventure humaine.L'âme de Hegel et les vaches du Wisconsin (Critiques, Analyses, Biographies Et Histoire Litteraire Ser. #Vol. 6042303)
Par Alessandro Baricco, Françoise Brun. 1998
Le chant d'Orphée selon Monteverdi
Par Philippe Beaussant. 2002
De l'Orfeo de Monteverdi, oeuvre carrefour qui conclut la Renaissance et d'où naît le baroque, Philippe Beaussant éclaire tous les…
aspects à la lumière de la peinture, de la philosophie et de la poésie de l'époque. Inspiré par un thème musical, un texte littéraire d'une profonde sensibilité.Fascinés par les grands raids automobiles du début du siècle, Dominique Lapierre et Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, tous deux reporters à Paris…
Match, arrachent l'autorisation de parcourir l'Union soviétique de Khrouchtchev en voiture, accompagnés de leurs femmes. À bord d'un break Simca bicolore "Marly", les quatre jeunes Français vont vivre treize mille kilomètres d'aventures. De la Pologne à l'Oural, de la Biélorussie au Caucase, des clochers du Kremlin aux palais des tsars sur les bords de la mer Noire, ils découvrent des lieux mythiques et des paysages de rêve et, surtout, ils font la connaissance des Russes. Au fil de leurs rencontres, se pose une question obsédante: comment le régime soviétique a-t-il réussi à persuader un peuple privé de liberté qu'il était le plus heureux de la terre? 2005.Au coeur de l'orchestre
Par Christian Merlin. 2012
Labels: a Mediterranean journal
Par Evelyn Waugh. 1991
Evelyn Waugh chose the name "Labels" for his first travel book because, he said, the places he visited were already…
"fully labelled" in people's minds. Yet even the most seasoned traveller could not fail to be inspired by his quintessentially English attitude and by his eloquent and frequently outrageous wit. From Europe to the Middle East and North Africa, from Egyptian porters and Italian priests to Maltese sailors and Moroccan merchants - as he cruises around the Mediterranean his pen cuts through the local colour to give an entertaining portrait of the Englishman abroad. 1991.American notes (Everyman's library ; #290)
Par Charles Dickens. 2000
To the nineteenth-century Englishman, America was not unlike Russia or China or Cuba today - a new society, founded on…
new and revolutionary principles. Charles Dickens was only one of the more famous of those Englishmen who crossed the Atlantic to see democracy in action. He chronicles his five-month trip around the United States in 1842 and records his adventures as well as his impressions of American schools, prisons and slavery. 2000.Kayaking the full moon: a journey down the Yellowstone River to the soul of Montana
Par Steve Chapple. 1993
Chapple, fed up with life in San Francisco, decided to return to his roots in Montana. In August, 1991, he,…
his wife, and their two sons began their adventure. They travelled the 671 miles of the Yellowstone and found two Montanas -- the old, where natives teach youth to appreciate their heritage, and the new, where people have summer homes and appear unconcerned for the environment. 1993.Journey on the Crest: walking 2,600 miles from Mexico to Canada
Par Cindy Ross. 1987
Journeying: travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus
Par Nikos Kazantzakis, Themi Vasils, Theodora Vasils. 1975
Posthumous account of the novelist's visits to foreign lands in 1926, including interviews with Mussolini and the Greek poet Cavafy.…
Passion, struggle, and spirit are the themes in this travelogue. 1975. Uniform title: Taxideuontas.Journey home (Travel Literature Ser.)
Par John Hillaby. 1983
The author and his wife set out from Ravenglass, a place "that gives the impression it fell asleep on a…
bed of shingle centuries ago" and end their journey on Hampstead Heath. Tapping an inexhaustible seam of natural history, archaeology and folklore, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with topical commonplace things to create a unique mixture. 1983.Jazz anecdotes
Par Bill Crow. 1990
Jackson Hole
Par Frank Calkins. 1973
An earthy, personal, affectionate portrayal of the beautiful town in the mountains of Wyoming. Interspersed with fact, reminiscences, yarns, speculations,…
and contemporary observations, it recaptures the days when the hole was an outlaw retreat. 1973.Is this live?: inside the wild early years of MuchMusic : the nation's music station
Par Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.Recounts the perilous and remarkable 1983 journey of the author, who is a naturalist, the poet James Fenton, and three…
native guides to the center of Borneo, an area unvisited by outsiders since 1926. 1984.In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs
Par Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.In trouble again: a journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
Par Redmond O'Hanlon. 1989
O'Hanlon takes readers on a four-month journey up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon basin in search of the…
Yanomami Indians. His book contains humour, adventure, and a wealth of information. 1989.In Xanadu: a quest
Par William Dalrymple. 1989
This is an account of a quest, a journey which began in the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and took William…
Dalrymple and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected hospitality and wildly improbable escapades, to Coleridge's Xanadu itself. 1989.In the kingdom of the thunder dragon
Par Joanna Lumley. 1997
In 1931 Joanna Lumley's grandparents undertook a three and a half month journey across the small and secret Himalayan kingdom…
of Bhutan, to honour the King with an award. Joanna retraces their steps to meet the King's descendants and discover for herself the charm of this forgotten land. Trekking on foot and pony across remote mountain passes and valleys, she visits the rural villages and the towering monasteries. She finds that little has changed since her forebears passed through, and is overwhelmed by the magic and beauty of Bhutan. 1997.